🇪🇬 Cairo vs 🇵🇰 Karachi

Hot desert — very hot dry summers, mild winters, virtually no rainfall

Cairo is one of the world's largest cities in one of the world's driest climates. Rain is essentially absent. Summers are brutally hot and dusty; winters are mild and perfect for sightseeing. The khamsin (hot desert wind) brings sandstorms in spring.

Karachi's climate is dominated by its position on the Arabian Sea coast along the southern edge of the Sindh plain, creating a hot semi-arid environment moderated by maritime influence. The city experiences extreme heat from April to June before the southwest monsoon brings humid relief, while sea breezes penetrate unevenly across the sprawling metropolitan area depending on distance from the coast and building density. The Lyari and Malir river corridors, mangrove-fringed coastline, and stark contrasts between dense old-city fabric and open peripheral development create significant microclimate variation across the megacity.